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  JW.ORG ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!

  by ADJUSTMENTS in

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  jw.org for the past year or so seems to have exploded onto the scene and going foward, to be the new name and face of the old tired and exposed jehovahs wittnesses, bible students, etc... and to the wbats for good reason!!!.

  the .org in jw.org is just as important as the jw in this age of internet and information.

  if you were to type jw.org or even jw alone into a search engine or directly into your internet browser (most people will type in jw.org into the internet browser, and be taken directly to the website) the first site to come up is of course the intended site, jw.org, and the websites following the initial jw.org site are uneventful, a law firm, media player, etc.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "So to the unsuspecting 18-35 year old (the WBATS target the young) they will totally by pass websites like this and others that expose TTATT."

  It's true that they can go directly to the website using the specific address. However, even the over-35 crowd like myself don't just click straight to a company page and make a big purchase based on the company's pictures and promotion. For cell service, job hunting, even smaller purchases like a printer, I look around online for information besides what the company features--at other reviews, other customer experiences, where the best deals are, etc. I don't expect all the reviews to be 5 star, but I want to hear what others have to say so I can really compare and decide.

  Any religions/churches can come up with slick websites. I think a person would have to have lived their lives under a rock to go straight to jw.org and decide to join the cult based on that website. The mormons have a slick website and a huge network of people and businesses promoting their religion. Yet I doubt that anyone is going to go straight to their website and decide to join. They'd sooner go to wikipedia and other websites to get information.

  It's easy to conclude that the 'social networking' generation are shallow non-thinkers. But, in reality, more people than ever can educate and inform themselves against propaganda. A hundred years ago when WT was selling books, people couldn't sit in their living rooms and search the Internet for more info about the corporation like people today can... and in just minutes find jwfacts or this website.
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  Just wondering

  by ducatijoe in

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  so i am new to this site.. i have left the organization of my own accord.

  and doing very well.. why do those of you who are still active, if you are on this site, still attend?.

  it is no differance to me... i am just wondering why.... .

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I attended after I began posting here because of family.

  I didn't DA because of family.

  I got sucked into this cult because of family.

  Family... the ties that bind... and gag.
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  Watchtower Tells Us "Employers Seek JWs Only" Yet Most JW Employers Avoid Hiring JWs, Why?

  by BucketShopBill in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here's a thought: we're told over and over how employers sing the praises of their jw employees, sometimes with a vague quote about how 'if we could only hire jws, we would as they are so honest'.

  however, while some jw employers themselves may hire jw employees (usually cheap entry level positions), most don't.

  in fact, many jw's in general who have businesses have a rule not to do work with jws, even those in their congregation.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  I've seen some JWs do okay working for other JWs, and I've seen some JWs become awful employees.

  The typical excuse for the terrible JW employees is, "they're still just imperfect humans."

  That completely crushes the idea of there being any "spiritual paradise" or "da troof changes lives". Fact is, the good JWs would still be good people even if they weren't JWs, and the bad JWs are completely unaffected by "holy spirit" or magical "new personalities."
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  Local Elder wins hot tub.

  by Clambake in

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  2. experiences

  an elder in my cong.

  test drove a new a car and was entered in this contest to win a new hot tub.

  i don't know if he had to enter to was just.

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  He'll have to donate it to the local branch...

  
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  vRemember Those in the Full-Time Service

  by thedog1 in

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  2. friends

  forgive me if this has been posted before by somebody else but i am outraged by the wt study edition for sep 15 2014 and the study article about remembering those in full-time service.

  some choice quotes:.

  of course, some have circumstances that do not allow them to share in the ministry full-time at this point.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "We can imagine the concern..."

  It really is all about imagination.

  Any that might be in a financial position to help other sheeple are expected to financially contribute to WT Corp. FIRST and foremost. And then they are often considered 'materialistic' if they have a good full-time job. It increasingly condemns the very people that are propping up this crazy religion.

  Rather than wasting money supporting a work that produces almost not growth in the bOrg, the money should go to education and career counselling for the dubs.
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  Pixar the production company is jealous of Caleb and Sophia video's

  by life is to short in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so said the co last night.. apparently a jw was on a flight and just happend to sit next to some big wig from pixar and when the man from pixar heard that he was a jw the pixar man just gushed over what great work that the watchtower has done in producing the caleb video's.

  he siad he only wished pixar could do such great work.

  the co said we are able to do it because we have free labor and jehovah behind us.. my husband stayed home from the meeting but wanted to tie in by phone and that is what the co said in his talk.. the co also talked about all the changes that have happened in the last ten years and how if some of the friends did not like it they needed and to quote him "they just needed to get over it" these changes are going to happned period.

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  Right. And Celine Dion was recorded singing "Kingdumb Maladies" with George Benson because JW music is so wonderful.

  This is yet another JW urban legend.

  When I was in beth-hell, there was a story spreading about a sister placing the Knowledge book with Pres. Clinton and he later told a reporter that he'd recently read an interesting book... blah, blah supposedly he read an entire JW publication. The Writing Department went to work tracking down the story to see about publishing it. When they tracked down this sister that had told the story at a Circus Assembly (somewhere in Idaho or something) and started asking questions, she broke down in tears and admitted it was all a lie.
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  I think one cult leader's voice in the mouth of another doesn't sound so strange, do you?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  i put doh onto lett.

  see if it doesn't fit him just right.

  the dubb is only fair, but its fun to do.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k13uxgtrya0.

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  Absolutely Culttastic!
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  Speculation Fall AGM

  by Poztate in

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  2. friends

  a lot of comments have been made about possible big changes at the agm in the fall.. comments range from changes to the blood doctrine or who compose the one hundred and forty four thousand.. my speculation is.... (and if someone else had this kind of thread i am not stealing from you..just never read it).

  the door to door as we know it will cease to exist.

  the publishing of a monthly public wt and awake will end.. instead each month a tract with different subjects and a redirect to jw.org will come out.

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  Maybe they'll announce the planned sale of the Warwick property and the relocation of the branch and Society corporations to the Cayman Islands, or something like that.
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  Reaching Out

  by jim_bean in

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  hi all, i'll leave my full story for another time.

  but briefly: i was born-in, raised by my single jw-mother, baptised at 18, faded less than 18 months later (never da'd.. or df'd to my knowledge!

  ), never gone back (though i looked over my shoulder for some time afterwards!

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  There are few that I've had post-JW contact with. We've gone in different directions so we don't have much in common other than memories.

  Oh, and WELCOME! to the forum!
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  Testimony card returns

  by sir82 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  old timers, or careful readers of the proclaimers book, are familiar with the "testimony card" used in the early days of rutherford-era door to door witnessing.

  the jw would traipse up to a house, knock, hand the card over to the householder, and wait while he read it.. well, it seems that "everything old is new again".

  here is an excerpt from a recent boe letter:.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "It has been observed that some people who are hesitant to accept a tract, magazine, or
  other literature are willing to visit our Web site."

  LOL. I think they have themselves confused with porn. Lots of people would never step foot in an adult bookstore or buy a skin magazine... but are ready, willing, and able to visit porn websites.

  I'm quite sure that men and boys aren't clearing their browser history to hide that they've been visiting jw.org.